The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-07
SOUTHERN GIRLS.
A New York Man Concludes That
They Are Prettier Than Their North
ern Sisters

A New York Man Concludes That
They Are Prettier Than Their Mort b.
ern Sisters
White Sulphur Letter III Ne'c York Times.
The aristocracy of Virginia is here repre-
scented largely, and that of the South gen
orally to quite degree, though not as
greatly as in former yeats. 1t now goes TO
Narragansett, Newport, Bar Harbor, with
! a small sprinHling, from long habit, to the
Jersey coast. Clustered about the CRATE In
the Office is invariably group Of gentle
men, spare of figure, with chin boards,
grayely discussing the political situation
and sun-dried plug tobacco. They shreWdly
sum up the condition of affairs nationally,
and punctuate their observations with line
shots at the cuspidor or the Goals. The
number of young men is unusual. W mite
Sulphur Is probably the only place among
| the well-known summer resorts where there
is cavalier for every young lady. Those
melancholy, if brilliant colored bouquets OF
singing and lonesome maidens which are
sadly discoverable in Railways and plaZzas
in New York and New England resorts are
not seen here The young men OF the
South turn out in summer as numerously as
the young ladies, partly because II Is the
habit Of their people, aud partly because the
that ceaSeless ard unwiSe pursuit or the
dollar, night and day, which is characteristic
of the more commercial civilization OF the
North. They believe i'll pleasure, and come
here TO get it. The summer has been Drill
liant round Of gayeties, which still continue.
Germans, card parties, lawn parties, dinner
parties and ali other means Of passing the
time III brilliant garb are the prevailing IN
diligence. Filtration in all the branches
lyt,nt 20 ,r~ ~
quota of resultant marriages is not as great
as formerly, but still the sentimental pre-
liminaries take place here in many cases.
The ladies are better looking than their
sisterhood of the North. The average of
female beauty is high. Those Jewel-hung
antiques in blazing satins that make blue
glasses desirable in more than one plutocratlc
resort of the North are scarce here. They
are replaced by the Southern mother,
sweet-faced, gentle-vOiced lady in black,
whom II is always a pleasure to observe.
The most notable characteristic of South
ern society. so far as it is represented at
White Sulphur, is its lack of stiffness. 1t
would seem that a descent from Mrs John
Rolfe, nee Pocahontas. or from those estima-
bic tirst-lady residents who were auctioned
off for plug tobacco in the early days of Vir-
ginia should not bring about social methods
any different from the customs of the pos
housewives who culled cabbage for sauer-
braut in New Amsterdam, or fried ignum-
vitae doughputs in the shadow of Plymouth
Rock. Nevertheless it is so. The people
are more at ease and less suspicious of
each other down here They know
each others families for genera
tions. The commercial criterion is absent
in the social tribunal. The South is inhab-
tied by a population composed entirely of
G,-cN IL ip,, or inv Inl
by new people, from outside districts, who
have come to give the outward and visible
signs of an inward colossal Doodle, and whose
antecedents must be Investigated, both as to
moral character and financial standing, be-
fore calls or other social intimacies ape ex-
changed Consequently, that stiffness and
exclusiveness which is characteristic of a so
ciety on an uncertain basis is pleasantly
absent in the gaylydressed throng as it GIBBS
and flows through the corridors of the
hotel and about the lawns that freshen the
grounds in all directions Everybody
knows everybody else, apparently, and
everybody appears to be enjoying life. The
old people drink sulphur water and the
young ones champagne. The patriarchs
play whist and the rising generation play
hearts. 1t is not the new game of Hearts"
that pasteboard Invention which cost the
novice his sleep and his salary whenever he
ventures, but that older game, that popular
diversion Invented on Olympus and per-
fected in Avernus, which continues to in
terfere with digestions and delightfully."-
warp the Judgment in the mountains of
West Virginia precisely as it has with Paris
and Helen, Francesca and Paola, Mr.. Mon
tague and Miss Capulet, Elaine and Lance
lot, the fat lady and the Ohio skeleton, and
all the other shapes, kinds and conditions of
humanity in this motley ant hill called the
world